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1. OVEHTL'KE— Dichter and Bauer Sfppe. 

2. SELECTION, from " Fra Diavolo," Aubek. 

8. QUADRILLE — U. S. Army, (A r)escrii)ti()n of Camp Life.)WElGAND. 

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1. OVERTURE—" Othello," Rossini. 

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3. GRAND SELECTION—'- L'Africaine," Meyi-kbeer. 

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REUNION OF POST PHIL KEARNY, 

No. 8, G. A. K.. 

DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK, 



WEDNESDAY EYENESTG, MARCH 25, 1868. 



COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS. 

(BLUE ROSETTES ) 

Ohas. K. Grah-i.m, M. W. Blake. 

M. W. Burns, J. T. Crosley, 

F. S. BoGUE, Q. 8. Wheeler, 

Frank Williams, Will'.am Wilson, 

J. R. LiSDSEY. 

RECEPTION COMMITTEE. 

(RED ROSETTES.) 

B. T. Morgan, James R. Burns, 

J. Egbert Faknham, John Cochrane, 

James Colvik, John A. Foster, 

Wm. Oland Bourne, John Eiseman, 

R. E. Edgewortii. 

FLOOR COMMITI'EE. 

(WIITTK HOSKTTKS.) 

11. E. Trkmain, H. F. V\nni.BY, 

CuAS. W. Nelson, J. W. Clois, 

Wii.i.AUD Hullard, Ohas. W. Sanfokd, 

K. E. Kendrick, Jr., Patrick Devoe, 

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Remarks of Gen. H. EDWIN TREMAIN, in presenting 
GENERAL de PEYSTER. 

/.fidies <nitl (it /i//inie /i : < 'ot/udilis <>/ /'nst /'/lil A''(ir/iy, 
,\'n. S. find "/' t/tf fi/-(i//(/ Ar//ty of ///<■ /Ci /)u>)lir : 

By instructions tVoin your ntiiiinittt't,- ot" iin-:m<;i'Uit'iits, 
it has hectiiiu' my pleiising duty t<> presoiit to you the 
i^eutleniau wlio^y luuuisoMie testimonial lias attordcd the 
occasion tor our intiTi'stin^ re-union here this evenin<; ; 
a gentleman — you will |H'rmit me to say — honored ;i.s the 
father ot' the Cnion othci-r who lirst raised the triumph- 
ant stars and stript'^ ovrr the fallen Kehel capital |ap- 
phiuse] : a kinsnmn ot" our j^allant ami lamented Kearnv 
— the mime in-cril>ed as well in the title of our Post a- 
in the hearts ot" those who knew him; an author, toct. 
whose i>en is that of the hest-informed inilitaiw writer of 
this war; and an otticer id' our New \'ork National 
Guard, whose wise >ug^estions and ennnent services in 
hehalf of our inilitarv system have heen recoirni/ed l»v 
the only special lirevet ever conferred hy a concurrent 
resolution of the State Loirislature ; *a L'<'iitlenuin, who>i' 

* By HjM'cial n-Kolutioii of Ni'w Vork L<'^i!«lHtnr«', panft-d Apri !ith ami 
20tb, 18<>0, (icni-ral DK 1'kystkii wbh nuule a Hrcvoi Major (;«-ncral, N«'«- 
York National tiiianl. a rank not ottnTwiHi- known in our Stati- .Nfiliiia. 



name, so well known to eveiy Knickerbocker, need only 
to be mentioned to insnre from 3'on the heartiest wel- 
come to our esteemed and patriotic fellow citizen, whom 
I now have the honor to introdnce — Brevet Major-Oeneral 
J. Waits de Peyster. 

Amid cheers and applause, General de Peyster then 
stepped forward and s-dd : 

Ge7itle?ne7i of "Post 'Phil A'earny, JV^tnnber S, of t?te 7)e- 
partment of JVew York', and Members of the Grcnul 
^rmy of the Republic : 

It is with feelings of peculiar gratification that 1 a])- 
pear before you this evening, to perform a duty to the 
hero-dead, and enjoy the pleasure of addressing yon, in 
order to recall one of those prominent figures in the 
greatest war-picture of the world, whose memory you 
have honored by selecting his name as the denomination 
of your Post. To me this selection has given the live- 
liest satisfaction, since, brought up with him in a child- 
less grandfather's house, we were united by ties stronger 
than those which often bind together men who are nearer 
in relationship. Throughout life these bonds were inten- 
sified by peculiar circumstances. There was a mutual 
confidence such as rarely exists except between brothers, 
and when Kearny went forth to ])lay a distinguished 
part in the death-struggle for our national existence, my 
eldest son rode beside him as a trusted member of his 
staff. Tiiis son was with him when he marched forth 
from the lines of Washington, to occupy the Rebel works 
at Manassas, close on the steps of the retreating Rebels. 
He was with Kearny when he saved Hookeu, and se- 
cured the victory at Williamsburg ^ and when he assisted 
in retrieving the lost ground at Fair Oaks and Seven 
Pines. Again they were together at Harrison's Landing, 



wlienoc tlicv jtartcd — one for a liii^M-rin^ 1)0(I of sick- 
ness; the other for a hed of ^lory. Ami I never hlmll 
recall without emotion the intense passion of «;rief which 
for two (lavs possessed the ulniost dyin«j aido-de-euini), 
when the news was conununiented to him that the cousin 
and commander whom he loved and venerated, was 
never a<;ain to he ijreeteil hy him on this side of the 
jrrnve. IJut this tijrief was not confined to one. The 
Commandiiijj: General, who had heen too tardy to do him 
(Keakny) justice while living', shed bitter tears over his 
corpse, and all true soldiers declared tljiit tlie Army had 
lost one of its brightest ornaments, one who had the rare 
genius to originate, and the ready hand to execute, and, 
above all, one who was distinguished for his ])ur(', uii>elf- 
ish, superb patriotism — a patriotism which began its 
work, l)y maintaining the cause of the Union with his 
voice and influence and means, abroad, and was sealed 
with his blood at home. The whole Nation nuuirnpd 
him ; its soldier-citizens in admiration, as witnesses of 
his deeds; its citizens in grateful acknowledgment as 
beneficiaries of his bright example. He took the field, 
incited by the jmrcst and most unselfish motives, for his 
country, and, over liis bullet-pierced body, that countrv 
deposited the laurel alid the oak-leaf crowns bedewed 
with tears — the tears of every class and sex — such tears 
as are rarely the tribute i>ai«l to the inere soldier, but 
were peculiarly due to the Paikiot-Warkiok. 

As MkMBKUS of TIIK (tRAN'O AliMY OF TUK Jii;PlBLIC 

the grandest army which ever came together to defend 
the integrity of a nation — that mition the greatest Re- 
public which has ever existed — the glories which cluster 
around the dead belong equally to you ; co-laborers in 
the great struggle, co-witnesses of the dangers overcome, 
and hap]>ier than the dead in that you have been per- 



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initted to share in the triumph, and behold the consum- 
mation of the great work fur which Kearny gave his 
life. 

How few months have elapsed since manj of you 
who are now present, were in the field, exposed to vicis- 
situdes of seasons, labors and privations, such as few 
armies have been called upon to endure, and, worse, the 
perils of a captivity, which exceeded, in its calculated 
tortures, the horrors of the more sudden, but hardly 
more savage, fate to which the Indian destined the pris- 
oner of his bow and his spear. When almost every 
army of which we have a record would have abandoned 
the open field, the active Grand Army of the Great Re- 
public was under arms and ready for battle. There were 
no Winter quarters, in the military sense of the word, 
for you. The advance, the retreat, the battle, the trench, 
and the almost incessant skirmish, went on as regardless 
of the Winter's sleet and snow as of the Tropic heat and 
drought — extreme and exhaustive draughts upon the 
human structure, wliich nothing but the superiority, 
mental and physical, moral and material, of Americans 
enabled you to endure — ^a superiority due to the institu- 
tions Avhich, in the language of a Napoleon — one of a 
family renowned for their insight and farsightedness- 
made you half-soldiers before you assumed the duties of 
soldiers, or were subjected to the drill and discipline of 
military life — a superiority' due to the blessings of Inde- 
pendence, which gave you an elasticity, a recuperative 
force, and a self-reliance, which neither danger, nor re- 
verse, nor poor commanders, nor a ])olitical fire in the 
rear, could daunt, or enervate, or overcome. 

It is usual with those who reflect u]>on the past to seek 
in history for ])arallels or examples of current events. 
Some have assimilated tlie ui)rising of our own country- 



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iiU'ii ill lSt;i to timt of tlic Kri'iifli ]Mn|.l,- in ITD.'J. Tliis 
paiiillol is not jiistilii'tl Ity the t"act>. in t lie Fieiicli 
luitioti heciiiiie truii.xiiinfi-ii into an army, tlu! ItavtMi wliicli 
(juickeni'<| tlii'in liiul lifcn l»roii<;lit back iVoni tlif vt-rv 
bttttle-HeUls on w liit'li tlu' Army ttf the I'otomao |iourtM| 
fortli so many of its hcst lives. Mori'ovir, the j-oil of' 
Franci', o|' their eoiintry. hud heeii invath'tl on all hides 
hy the hordes ot" desiHitism, sei'kin;; to i|iiench, in Mood, 
the new-born tire ot" liberal ideas. 

When i'lastern Kiiiopi-, and espeeially (Terniany, rose 
U|> in ISI.'I, as one man, to waijj.' a '* War of r.ibi'ration," 
it was to tear ott' fetters which had bi-coine too heav\ for 
either soul or boily any ionixer to bear. 

In the caseof America, however, neither toreiijn invasion, 
which appeals directly to .\atiomil lionor,and thus makes 
a people rise, as one man — nor home oppression, which 
enters the soul ot' every individual, and rouses even slaves 
t«) desperation, moved the Morthern jjcople. Neither the 
thirst for military ^htry, nor the fury of vent^eance, incited 
them to the most «^i<xantic war-eti'orts of all time. No I 
It was the purest love of country, the fixed determina- 
tion that the institutions under which themselves and 
their fathci's had prospered, and enjoyed those blessinijB 
which make life nH»st dear, shouUi be juvserved and main- 
tained for their children, and, to use the eloipu-nt words 
of our nnirt^'red President, with which he con.seei-atid 
the National Cemetery, on the jtroudest battle-Held (»f 
the Army of the Potomac : " A field, a victory due almost 
entirely to the maj^niticent conduct of the subaltern^ and 
soldiers of that Army — a battle whose delivery and tri 
umpli was due, in a j^reat measure, to the prchcience anci 
gallantry of the General of the Thiid Corps (Sicklksi, 
whom you have selected as your departmental Coiii- 
mander — who lost his limb, but savt'd the position. f'ru>- 



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trating the efforts of the best Rebel generals, and de- 
stroying so many of the best Rebel troops — a battle-field 
on which a Graham, sore wounded, held his ground, and 
maintained his position with the sacrifice of his liberty, 
and then refused to -RK-purchase his liberty at the sacri- 
fice of his soldierly honor " — all this, as Lincoln said, 
that " the best Government in the world" (as admitted by 
the Rebels themselves), '"the Government of the Peo- 
ple, for the People, hy the People, should not perish 
from the face of the Earth." 

Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, you 
were the savioursof the country, and you realized, as had 
never before been realized, the proud boast of the Prus- 
sian patriot : " We will all become soldiers, but remain 
citizens ! " Braver soldiers tlie world has never seen, 
none more enduring, none more faithful in good report 
and in evil report. And as soon as the war was over, 
where can we find better citizens? "When the great 
armies of the East and West had finished their triumphal 
procession through the streets of the National Capital 
— then, without a murmur and without a claim — with- 
out even such a claim as our Revolutionary army ad- 
vanced — they disappeared — those two vast armies dis- 
appeared in the great body of the people, as the ice in an 
early Spring day dissolves and mingles with the streams, 
of which one hour it was a thing apart^ and now a part. 

Indeed, the only token of the military organization 
which comprised a million and a half of men in firms, are 
such Brotherhoods as the Grand Army of the Republic, 
Ijonded together, not for selfish pur])Oses, but for mutual 
benefit, the remembrance of the past, the maintenance of 
our institutions, and the good of the country its Members 
liave saved. Good soldiers tliey went forth, and fought, 
and wrought, and better citizens they returned and lived ; 



8(> tluit if is a otiiimioii ri-iiiark tliat, iiiilikf tlio military 
cleinoiit ill other roiintrii's, llio soMiiTV in "Ur own, with 
rare cxcoptioiis, arc tlic most |'ca«'cl'iil, hiw aliiiliiiLT, ami 
in(histi-it>iis. in our fommimitirs. 

Mkmhkks of tiik Cikanh Akmy ok the Kkim lii.n , your 
career in arms was to com hat and eoiKjiier a treaaon tho 
most hideous and a rebellion tho most danj^orous in tho 
history of the world. ()ther treasons ami rehellions have 
been against dynasties and castes; this wjis against the 
Peoplk, against Progress, against humanity itself. It was 
the sacrilegious effort to convert the refuge of tho op- 
pressed, designed by (rod, into a den of oppression ; to 
make the grand asylum of Thought, an asylum in which 
— horror of horrors — Frkk Thou«;ht would have betn 
maltreated as Insanity. If such was the depth of wick- 
edness in th ? Southernei'S themselves, what, then, shall 
be said of those Northerners who stood forth, and stand 
forth, as their sj-mpathizers, abettors, advocates, and 
would-be restorers? Against these latter the combat 
must be renewed and maintained. For their conquest 
the North looks to your Association as its veteran phalanx 
of strength. In God and true men, such as you, the 
country puts its trust, and, if the duty is d(»iie at home 
as it was done in the held, the tvent is certain, tho 
triumph is assured. Looking upon you, looking to the 
Grand Army of the llEPunLif, the battle-cry of the 
Knights of the Holy Temple sounds once more in my 
ears, "Gor> wills it." " (ion wills it." We shall con- 
quer, and all will be well indeed. 

Bear with me a moment while I rcn<ler into Knglish 
for you the eloquent and pertinent language of the French 
author of " Eiirhteen Hundred Yeai-s." " I have often- 
times," says he, ''rcHected upon the diirerent kinds of 
fflorv : T know of none which, even ilistanflv, apprr>n<In's 



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military glory. In t'tict, after all, what is the real ck'vo- 
tioii of other careers, which present scarcely any risk and 
wliose votaries die of old age, in comparison to that de- 
votion of every one of his days, of each hour of ]iis day, 
on the part of a soldier, to whom his general lias the riglit 
at any minute to say, 'Go die! ' and whose duty is to 
answer, ' 1 go ! ' ^t soldier is a man consecrated to his 
country. In the same degree as danger rises before him, 
he must rise to the occasion to meet it, and brave it even 
to the loss of his life. In every ami}' worthy of the name 
there is many a Leonidas. Before such sacrifices, who 
will not pay homage to a soldier when he does Tiot take 
advantage or al)use this title? No! who will not 1)0W to 
such a generous c;ireer i Tlie thought often_suggests itself 
that all men who sacrifice their lives upon a field of battle 
have, in their last expiring breath, l)equeathed to their 
surviving comrades their rights to the gratitude and ad- 
miration of their common country. In truth, as those 
who survive demand no better fate than to die like 
them, they have a right to harvest the heritage of glory 
which they have cultivated with their arms and watered 
with their blood. Yes ! even as the sun shines amid the 
multitude of stars, even so the true patriot-soldier shines 
among men. His duty is to die for his countrymen ; 
theirs it is to render justice to the first of professions and 
the queen of all glories." 

And, now, before I conclude my remarks, bear with 
me while I say a few words of the Dead and of tlio 
Living. 

You have honored the memory of the dead by calling 
this Post by the name of a fallen brave, who was styled 
the American Bayard, a title not lightly won and never 
worn in the field by one who did not prove himself "■ the 
bravest amon-;' the brave.*" All hii^torv concurs tliat 



Bayard is the tinost oxaiii|.li' (if ii prorcKsioiial and 
jtatriotic solilier, whoso living wunls (•*in<iirri*<i with tho 
acts aiul lanji^unge of hh lifo. " I <lie, c«mtc'Mt, imloetl," 
i?aid hi', '' hecaiise I die in the dischar^ri- of' my Hervice, 
and the only regret that I liave is, that, in h>sin^ my lil'e, I 
h-)8e the (tj)j>ortnnity of })errorminj; future serviee." Such 
was, likewise, tho very ami whole tenor of Kkakny's 
letteis, words and deeds, even to the hour when he fell. 

(Tcneral Scorr, who knew him well, and had the am|de8t 
opportunities of jutlj^inix, who comprehended the value 
of words, their furce and their si^niticance, pronounced 
General Kkaknv "the hravest man he ever knew," 
and the most ])erfect soldier. Witness Scon's recom- 
mendation to Governor ^[okgan, in May, ISGI : " I ])Qp 
leave to suj;j;est Jfajor I'nii.ii' Kkaknv, oJ" Nkw Yokk, 
late a distinguished ottieer of tho Army, tor a hi^^h com- 
mission in the Nkw Yokk \'olunteors. Major Kkaknv's 
lonjx and valuable exj>eri('nce in actual military service 
seems to coinmend liiiii as a nsetul, as well as a vahiaMe 
conunander and discijdinarian. Jle is am(»n<r the iiravest 
of the l)rave, and of the highest military s]»irit and 
he<1riIlL^ 

The prairies of the farthest "West; tlie Atlas' " (Tates 
of Iron;" the valleys of the ITispano-Aniericrtn Sierras: 
the "Pedrigal" of Mexico; the mountain gorges of the 
far-distant Northwestern Orcg -n ; the ]»lains of Lom- 
bardy ; the swami)s of the C'hickahominy ; the shores of 
thePooinac; — regions the most remote — were to him 
the tlieatres of glorious combat, and tlie scenes of invari- 
able distinction. Tlie nntst savage American Indians, 
the untamed and untamable Kabyles, the Aztec and his 
hybrid Spanish successors, tlie Austriati, the Frank, the 
Italian, and the fiercest Rebels, all e<pnilly bore testi- 
mony to his surpa.ssing merit as the dashing Dragoon, the 



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reliable Aide-de-Camp, the daring Captain, the intrepid 
Volunteer, and the consummate General. 

Three continents — America, Europe, and Africa — hail 
him equally as one who, against Southern audacity, 
European discipline, and Barbarian ferocity, manifested 
the highest type of chivalric soldiership. And then, 
even as was said of Rienzi — when the wing of the death- 
angel cast a shadow over the proudest moment of his tri- 
umph, so that the Great Tribune of the People seemed 
by one step to descend from the pinnacle of Glory into 
the Grave — he went like a Fntexix to his pyre — even so 
" the Bayakd of our Post,'' crowned with the applause of 
those best able to judge of his merit, spurred, as it w^ere, 
invested with the blaze of acknowledged pre-eminent 
soldiership, into a grave w^liich is still all aglow with his 
never contested, or even questioned fame, a. vert Phcenii 



TO HIS PYRE 



No one who fought beside Kearny, not one of the old 
" Army of the Potomac," but will admit that he deserves 
all this. I can even add a worthier claim to your love 
and admiration. He was a fearless American patriot. 
I71 whatever he undertook lie shone. 

By his, the name, Phil Kearny, your post is known, a 
Post in his Native City, in which he was born and 
brought up ; a city from which he was first appointed to 
the Army in 1837; the Greatest City of the Greatest 
State to wdiich he preferred, as the right of a son and a 
CITIZEN, his claims for a high, but suitable command, in 
1861 ; a city beneath whose sacred soil he sleeps the 
sleep of the brave and laithful beside those who were 
equally brave and laithful in former Wars and Genera- 
tions. 

" But speak no more of liis renown, 
Lay your earthly fancies down, 
And in tin- vast Cathedral leave liim — 
<«f)d accept liiiii, Cjirist receive him." 



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Aiitl ii.)\\ till- ;i happiur tlioiiii', the liuiKtis iliic tlio liv- 
ing. This Pn.>t, No. S, «»r I'liii. Kkaknv, li(l<>ii<;h to tin* 
I )»'|»iirtiiicnt ot" New York, \vlio8e (/'rain/ Cnmummler in 
oiu' who l>f^;iii !iis career hy the side <>i " l''n.iiriN(j Joe" 
jiinl " I'luniiM. 1*1111.," aixl who, if for no other fi<;htiii«; 
thiui that I'll thi' secniul <h»y of ( Jcttyslmrir, (h'scrve.- the 
title i*\! '* i'K.im.M. Dan." 

When I stood nii the hattli' tiehl ot (iftty>l>ur^, and, 
h)okini^ toward the lihtody I'eai'h ()rfhar<l, siirvcved the 
Rehel position and onr own, and wcii;hed the iin |iortance 
(»f those Ivi'V l*oints, the lionnd Tops, I couhl init hut 
ask myself why the Keltels did not lni-ii our left, plant 
themselves upon our cominunication>, and cut us oil' from 
Washin<;ton. iheix-upon the thouj^ht immediately oc- 
curreil, " Did not the astute mind of Sickle> foresee all 
tills, and, foreseeiiip; tiiis, seek to provide aj^aiiist the daii- 
pjer or arre>t it?" Skki.Ivs moved forward. What a 
tierce controversy this discharire of a duty, pure and 
simjde, lias occasioneil. It was characteristi<- ot' that 
wonderful coiniiion stnue tor which the '' World's con- 
(pierors^ compieror," the Ikon Dikk, wa> famous, of 
whom the Uritish Laureate wrote, as 

■ Hicli ill siiviii;r cuiiiiiKin senst- " — 
and 

" Iron norvf to true occasion true " — 

tiiat common sense "the most uncomnmn kind of sense, 
in its hi]i;hest meaninir, as applied \o ^reat atiairs." 

Eye-witnesses (if they are to be helieved, and I con- 
sider that they are nu)st worthy of every man's helief) 
ileclare that if Skklks had not nuule t\\ef'i>riO(tnf jimvc- 
irumt, which his superior ciuidemned, the failure to make 
it W(Uild have condemned Siokm;s. Indeed, it has heeii 
remarked hy one of the clearestdieade<l otlieers then and 
there present, with whom I have had the pleasure of" con- 



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versing (Brevet Brigadier-denerul Tkemain), that it 
wouUl have been criminal in Sickles if he had not made 
it. Another friend, who commanded a brigade and a 
division with credit, corroborated this. Fie said that if 
Sickles had not assumed the aggressive-defensive on 
that 2d July afternoon— it is very doubtful if the battle 
would have l)een fought at Gettysburg, and, if any battle 
was fought, it would have been fought much nearer Bal- 
timore. 

LoNGSTKEET perccived the value of the Round Tops, 
and struck for them^ and, as he struck^ Sicki.^8 struck him, 
and so clung to hiin^ and depleted him, that his corps, or 
grand division, did very little on the ensuing day. If 
Sickles lost his leg, Longstreet lost more, and the Rebel 
right was as crippled as if it had lost its right leg. At 
all events, it made no more steps around our left. That 
problem was solved, there was no more strategy on the 
Rebel side, but hard pounding, and, as at Waterloo, the 
Northern races i>ouuded longest and hardest. There 
"Fighting Dan's'' military career closed, but has he not 
ever won brighter laurels in administration ? The re- 
grets of the Third Corps followed him when he was 
compelled to relinquish its command; the regrets of the 
Ultra Rebel Carolinas followed him, when their control, 
with equal injustice, was taken from him by " an acci- 
dent of an accident." Like his Brother-in-Arms already 
dwelt upon, Kearny — Sickles has shone in whatever he 
has undertaken. 

And now to you, Colonel Morgan, Commander and 
Representative of Post No. ^, Phil Kearny — I consign 
this Banner to be held in trust by you, and by your suc- 
cessors in office. It is emblazoned with Kearny's Like- 
ness, and with his Emblem — that Cross ever seen in the 
fore-front of the battle, and his IVIotto ; and anv one who 



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has watclit'd tlif careors o\ our Arinii*8 will hr Hutibtied 
that wlu'iK'Vi'i- tlif cribis aj^aiii tlumaiuls the mTvicuh o!" 
till- (iKANh Akmv Ml niK Ukitblio, ikjI oiif iiifiiilfer of it 
will Ik' roiiiMl \\lii» is Nor animati-d with the Mfutijiifiil 
which Phil Kkaknt (HimI to thMimnstratc, that "it ih 

SWKKT ANr» I'Kol'KK li) IMi; H iK <»LI: KaTM KULAM»." 



Response, by Post Coiimiander B. T. MORGAN. 

(ifiirrai tie /'rystt r: 

I caniiitt uivL' iitteraliCL' ?<» words t>iitH(ioiitl v slroiiir to 
express mv sensi' ot" the di.stiiictinii contV-rrtMl mi me in 
ht'iiii; the recipient -as the Coiiiiiiaiidant and Keprfsen- 
tative of l*o>t Phil Kcaniv, Mo. 8— of the «'lei;aiit and 
appropriate hannci-, which i now ha\e the honor t<i i-e- 
ceive from your hands. For niVBelf. and in helialf of tlie 
eonirado nf my Post. 1 mo.st heartily thank ynu fi>r this 
rich and lieautiful <fift which you have so handsomely 
bestowed, and whii-h you have presented with so much 
of the feeliiiLT :ind bearin<r ot the gallant soldier. 

I cannot re])ly in detail to your interestiui; and trulv 
pati-iotie address; hut I can say most sincerely for mv- 
self — ami as I doubt not also for my a.ssociates — that we 
respond with a full amen t<> all the sentiment^ vou have 
so eloquently uttered. 

Sir, your association in l>oyhiMi(l aiid maidiooil with 
one *«o ijifted and noble a> PniLir Kkakny may well 
awaken witliin your bosom feelini^s and remembrances 
of the most lender and exalted nature. You may he 
justly proud of y<>ur kinsmm. And a father's heart nniy 
turn with all it> parental yearnings, and with all the 
promptings of high and getierous juspi rat ions, to that 



woi-tln and hei'oic son. who was one of tlie ti'usted iiieni- 
l)0i'8 of that patriotic kiiisuian's staff. There is not a 
lo\al heart within our hind th;it does not cherish the 
name and deeds of General Kearny — the great warrior, 
the nnseltish and noble man I truly cliaracterized, by one 
who well knew him, as you luive said, "among the 
In-avest of the l)rave, and of the liigliest military spirit 
and dai'ing." 

It must be that every membei- of the G. A. R. will re- 
ofard aiul irlorv in liis heroic and brilliant career. His 
name is engraven on our Post, and clierished fondly in 
our hearts. It (*aiHU)t be that sticli a man — such a pa- 
triot — such a soldier — such a general — can be forgotten 
or lightly esteemed by his comrades in arms. We can- 
not cease to remember and revere our noble general, wlio 
sleeps where rest the brave. Over his tomb a grateful 
country has strewed its laurels; and even a foreign nation 
rewarded him while living, for gallant services, with the 
cross of the legion of honor — tlie emblem now conspicu- 
ous on our banner. 

General, permit me again to thank you for this beau- 
tiful memento, which you have so kindly aiul generously 
inti'usted to our keej>ing. 

The likeness of that brave and patriotic old \varrior, in 
a I'ighteous cause, will, through the eye, as we look fondly 
u}ton it, reach the deepest recesses of our hearts. The 
honored and heroic dead will come to mind, and be 
present with us ; and whenever the crisis demands, not 
one faitliful ineml)er of our order — not one comi-ade of 
Post Phil Kearny, No. 8, who lias physical ability — but 
will stand in his riglit ])lace and do his duty. And, too, 
this cherished baniu'r, with its sacred emblem and yie- 
tured form .\\\\\ go with us. iu'\er to l)e lowei'ed or trailecl 
in the dn>t while llin-e is one liviiin- hand left aniono- ns 



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with stronijlli t«> i^rjisp it, i»r (uie lioiirt tn Ix-nt in imison 
I'or liberty jiiul l'(1UuI rights within uiir l»L'h)Vt'(l cuuiitry. 
And shniiUl Heaven so ordiiin, I vniiy Imliove that we 
will all he ready to demonstrate our taith, in the noltle 
motto ol' that luihlo man : ' It i^ swfct Mtul prDitt-r tn die 
tor our Fatherland." 



Eesoliitions of Thanks to various Persons in con- 
nection with the Post Reunion, March 25, 
1868 ; offered by Com. Bullard, and Adopted 
April 1, 1868. 

ItcHulved, That the thanks of the Post be tendered to Brevet Major- 
<ieneral J. Watts de Peystei{, N. G. S. M., for the superb Silk 
Banner, bearing an equestrian portrait of the illustrious Kearny, and 
adorned by the insignia of his famous Division, presented b_y that loyal 
and patriotic gentleman, in a highly eloquent Address, at Irving Hall, 
on Wednesday Ev niug, the 25th of March, 18G8. 

Kesolced, That Major-Cieneral de Peyster, Commander B. T. Mor- 
(JAN, and Comrade II. E. Tremain, be recjuested to furnish copies of 
their Addresses on the occasion of the Banner Presentation, and that 
they be published with a full report of the other proceedings. 

Resolved, That the thanks of the Post be tendered to Brevet Major- 
General D. Butterfiei.d, U. S. A., for the Use of the Governor's Isl- 
and Band, for the Promenade Concert at Irving Hall, on the 3.")th March, 
1808, and that he be requested to convey to the Leader and Members of 
the Band, our high appreciation of the choice music selected for the 
occasion, and of the artistic manner in vk'hich it was rendered. 

Resolved, That the thanks of the Post be tendered to Commanders J. 
H. Ul'SHCR and J. E. Jewett, U. S. N., for the use of National and 
other colors, for the decoration of Irving Hall on that occasion. 

Resolved, That the thanks of the Post be tendered to Brigadier-Gen- 
eral G. A. Palmei{, Commissary of Ordnance, for the loan of howitzers 
on the occasion of the Promenade Concert. 

Resolved, That the thanks of the Post be tendered to Commander 
KuzvzANowsKi, of Post 32 ; to Comrade M. W. Burns, of Post 8, and 
to the other Comrades of the G. A. II., for the use of war-worn colors on 
tlie occasion of the l*romenade Concert, at Irving Hall, March 25, 1868. 



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